What do you think? 2 Rooks or a Queen!

Hello all of chess.com today I will start a new series of blogs, these " what do you think" blogs mostly depend on comments I am just spreading the facts. The inaugural addition will be 2 Rooks or a Queen.

Please post your answer in the comments I will reveal the answer if there are enough votes in the next blog.

So lets get to the facts.

Points

As many of you reading this should know a queen is nine points worth, the most valuable piece in the game pointwise. Still though, 1 Rook is 5 points and that makes 2, 10. So there we have it, using its 1 extra piece advantage the 2 Rooks will win this.

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Wanted?

In this edition of rook vs queen we are talking about the 2 most wanted pieces in the game, to capture and to keep. To find out the winner we will have to resort to pawns, passed pawns. When you are about to promote your piece what would you promote it to? Stats show that the most common is the queen, still though the rook is not to far behind. I guess the queen wins this round and hits it equal.

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Availability

This section will be the most important and will be divided into three parts- Starting position- middlegame- endgame. Lets dig in.

Starting position

As the diagram shows this is a common starting position. We will look at the availability in this scenario. As you can see whites queen can straight away move out and normally  comes a second move ,the queens gambit.

This, as I said is known as the queens gambit.  

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Middlegame 

Seeing this middlegame situation from one of my games you can see that white has 1 rook and 1 queen against blacks 2 rooks. As you can see in this middlegame position blacks rooks are yet to be active whereas whites queen after the queens gambit has been accepted or even in a declined queens gambit situation white can get its queen out.

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Endgame 

As you can see in this endgame position all pieces are able to roam about freely but blacks rooks can set up checkmates such as the lawnmower checkmate whereas white can do the king and queen checkmate. white will have to spend time pushing its pawns forward to get better checkmates available so I think it is safe to say that the rooks win here.

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ATTACKING

In this final section of this blog we will look at attacking chances.

In this unlikely endgame I have simply shown the double attacks, not that one of them is safe we are really just looking at double attacks and the queen is a master due to its advantage of going straight- left-right-diagonal. 

Now lets look at rooks.

Rooks can do straight and diagonal double attacks therefore good attacks on major pieces may be hard but still rooks are brilliant of pulling a skewer out of every situation. It is safe to say that queen wins.

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Remember this is my opinion.